Honored Persons Database
Displaying 141 – 160 of 817 Honorees (Category: Computer Scientist - Software/Mathematics, with portraits)
Mochio Umeda
One of the most well-known commentators on IT and Web 2.0 issues in Japan, Umeda is also the author of the best-selling book "Web Shinkaron (Theory of Web Evolution)." He is a...
Lawrence J. Shoenberg
Noted for serving as head of three sections of ADAPSO—Software Products, Professional Services, and Information Systems Integration—Shoenberg also spent 20 years on the ADAPSO board and served a term as its chair....
Linus Benedict Torvalds
Creator of the Linux kernel and key catalyst of the open source movement, Torvalds initiated one of the most influential software projects in history.
Raymond (Ray) F. Boyce
Co-developer of SQL, the first commercially successful language for relational databases, Boyce's work established the standard for relational database query languages still in use today. He was also known for his research...
Anne-Marie Eklund Lowinder
Credited with making .SE the world's first top-level domain to be signed with DNSSEC in 2005, Eklund Löwinder was a leading innovator in the implementation of Domain Name System Security Extensions, the...
Edward (Ed) H. Sussenguth, Jr.
Known for his work on the APL programming language and multiple systems for IBM, Sussenguth was an American engineer born in Holyoke, Massachusetts. He received his B.A. degree in 1954 from Harvard...
Ted Dabney
Co-founder of Syzygy and Atari, Dabney met Nolan Bushnell while working at Ampex, and the two jointly created Syzygy. Their first product, Computer Space, was manufactured and sold by Nutting Associates. Following...
Neil James Alexander Sloane
Contributor to the fields of combinatorics, error-correction coding, and sphere packing, Sloane's research has ranged far and wide, including coding theory, sphere packing, lattices and quadratic forms, packing lines, and planes, spherical...
Maurice Karnaugh
Developer of the Karnaugh map, also known as the K-map, Karnaugh created a method to simplify boolean algebra expressions that was fundamental in the development of digital electronics and is provided for...
Peter M. Schnell
Founder of Software AG, Schnell established the company in 1969. He developed the ADABAS Data Management System and the NATURAL Fourth Generation Language, which became foundational contributions to enterprise software. In 1992,...
Edgar (Ted) Frank Codd
Inventor of the relational model for database management, Codd established the theoretical basis for relational databases while working for IBM. He made other valuable contributions to computer science, but the relational model,...
Ken Orr
Leading researcher in the development of automated tools for business requirements, database design, and advanced client/server prototyping, Orr is an internationally recognized expert on business process reengineering, technology transfer, software engineering, data...
Calvin Northrup Mooers
Known for his work in information retrieval and for the programming language TRAC, Mooers was a native of Minneapolis, Minnesota. He attended the University of Minnesota and received a bachelor's degree in...
Lotfi Askar Zadeh
Best known for his theory of fuzzy logic, Zadeh proposed using a membership function (with a range covering the interval [0,1]) operating on the domain of all possible values. He proposed new...
Peter Pin-Shan Chen
Known for the development of Entity-Relationship Modeling, Chen is an American computer scientist and Professor of Computer Science at Louisiana State University. Born in Taichung, Taiwan, he received a B.S. in electrical...
Bruce Lindsay
Participant in the development of System R (the first Relational DBMS prototype) and R* (a distributed RDBMS), Lindsay is a recognized expert on many aspects of relational database technology, including distributed DBMS,...
Brian Warboys
Chief designer of ICL's VME operating system, Warboys went on to become a Professor of Software Engineering at the University of Manchester from 1985 until he retired in September 2007, subsequently being...
Marsha J. Berger
Pioneer of adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) and Cartesian mesh finite difference methods for numerical PDEs, Berger's block-structured AMR approach, beginning with her thesis, is now considered one of the seminal ideas in...
Liang-Jie (LJ) Zhang
Lead architect for IBM HotVideo HyperVideo technology, Zhang is a computer scientist formerly at IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, where he served as a Research Staff Member (RSM) and Program Manager...
Florian Brody
Co-inventor of Voyager's Expanded Books, the first electronic books to be read on a laptop, Brody is an international marketing executive and digital media specialist with over 25 years of experience. He...